are  fully  set  forth. 


A  Guide  to  the  Presidential  Election  of  1864 


J.  F.  FEEKS,  PUBLISHER, 

No.  26  ANN  STREET,  N.  Y. 


"WHEREIN  THE 


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ARE  EULLY  SET  FORTH. 


A  G-uide  to  the  Presidential  Election  of  1864 


J.  F.  FEEKS,  PUBLISHER, 

No.  26  ‘  ANN  STREET,  N.  T. 


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THE  EINCOEZST 


LESSON  THE  FIRST. 

I. 

What  is  the  Constitution  ? 

A  compact  with  hell — now  obsolete.  * 

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II. 

By  whom  hath  the  Constitution  been  made  obso¬ 
lete  ? 

By  Abraham  Africanus  the  First. 

in. 

To  what  end  ? 

That  his  days  may  be  long  in  office— and  that  he 
may  make  himself  and  his  people  the  equal  of  the 
negroes. 

IV. 

What  is  a  President  ? 

A  general  agentlor  negroes. 


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Y. 

What  is  Congress  ? 

A  body  organized  for  the  purpose  of  taxing  the 
people  to  buy  negroes,  and  to  make  laws  to  protect 
4-he  President  from  being  punished  for  his  crimes. 

VI. 

What  is  an  army  ? 

A  provo3b  guard,  to  arrest  white  men,  and  set  ne¬ 
groes  free. 

VII. 

Who  are  members  of  Congress  supposed  to  rep¬ 
resent  ? 

The  President  and  his  Cabinet. 

'  VIII. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  coining  money  ? 

Printing  green  paper. 

*  IX. 

What  did  the  Constitution  mean  by  freedom  of 
the  Press  ? 

Throwing  Demo 3 ratio  newspapers  out  of  the  mails. 

X. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  word  Liberty  ? 
Incarceration  in  a  vermin-infes  ted  bastile. 

XI. 

What  is  the  duty  of  a  Secretary  of  War  ? 

To  arrest  freemen  by  telegraph.  ,  j 

XII. 

What  are  the  duties  of  a  Secretary  of  the  Navy  ? 

•  To  build  and  sink  gunboats. 


CATECHISM. 


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XIII. 

What  is  the  business  of  a  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  ? 

To  destroy  State  Banks  and  fill  the  pockets  of  the 
people  full  of  worthless,  irredeemable  U.  S.  shinplas- 
ters. 

XIY. 

What  is  the  chief  business  of  a  Secretary  of  State  ? 

To  print  five  volumes  a  year  of  Foreign  Corres¬ 
pondence  with  himself,  to  drink  whisky,  and  proph¬ 
esy  about  war. 

XY. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  word  “  patriot?” 

A  man  who  loves  his  country  less,  and  the  negro 
more. 

XYI. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  word  “  traitor?” 

One  who  is  a  stickler  for  the  Constitution  and  the 
laws. 

XYII. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  word  “  Copperhead  ?” 

A  man  who  believes  in  the  Union  as  it  was,  the 
Constitution  as  it  is,  and  who  cannot  be  bribed  with 
greenbacks,  nor  frightened  by  a  bastile. 

XVIII. 

What  is  a  “  loyal  league  ?” 

A  body  of  men  banded  together,  with  secret  signs 
and  pass  words,  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  negro  of 
a  white  man,  and  of  controlling  elections  bv  force  or 
fraud. 


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XIX. 

»  ■  * 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  word  “law?” 
The  will  of  the  President. 

XX. 

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How  were  the  States  formed  ? 

By  the  United  States. 


XXI. 

Is  the  United  States  Government  older  than  the 
States  which  made  it  ?” 

It  is. 

XXIL 

Have  the  States  any  rights  ? 

None  whatever,  except  when  the  President  allows. 

XXIII. 

Have  the  people  any  rights  ? 

None  but  such  as  the  President  gives. 

XXIY. 

Who  is  the  greatest  martyr  of  history  ? 

John  Brown. 

XXV. 

Who  is  the  wisest  man  ? 

.  *  I  f 

Abraham  Lincoln. 

XX  VL 

Who  is  J eff.  Davis  ? 

The  devil. 


CATECHISM. 


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LESSON  THE  SECOND. 


I. 

What  is  the  “habeas  corpus  ?” 

The  power  of  the  President  to  imprison  whom 
he  pleases,  as  long  as  he  pleases. 


n. 

What  is  Trial  by  Jury  ? 

Trial  by  military  commission. 


in. 

What  is  “  security  from  unreasonable  searches  and 
seizures?” 

The  liability  of  a  man’s  house  to  be  entered  by 
any  Provost  Marshal  who  pleases. 


IV. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  promise  that,  “no 
person  shall  be  held  to  answer  for  any  crime  unless 
on  a  presentment  or  indictment  of  a  Grand  Jury?” 

That  any  person  may  be  arrested  whenever  tlio 
President  or  any  of  his  officers  please. 


y. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  promise  that,  “no 
person  shall  be  deprived  of  life,  liberty  or  property, 
without  due  process  of  law  ?” 

That  any  person  may  be  deprived  of  life,  liberty 
and  property,  whom  the  President  orders  to  be  so 
stripped. 


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YI. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  “the  right  to  a  speedy 
and  public  trial  by  an  impartial  jury?” 

A  remote  secret  inquisition  conducted  by  a  man’s 
enemies. 

VII. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  promise  that  the 
accused  shall  be  tried  “  in  the  State  and  district 
wherein  the  crime  shall  have  been  committed?” 

That  he  shall  be  sent  away  from  the  State  and  be¬ 
yond  the  jurisdiction  of  the  district  where  the  offenser 
is  said  to  be  committed. 


VIII.  > 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration  that 
the  accused  shall  “  have  the  assistance  of  counsel  fo 
his  defense  ?” 

That,  in  the  language  of  Seward  to  the  prisoners  in 
Fort  Warren,  “the  employment  of  counsel  will  be 
deemed  new  cause  for  imprisonment.” 

IX. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration  that, 
“the  right  of  the  people  to  keep  and  bear  arms  shall 
not  be  infringed?” 

That  a  man’s  house  may  be  searched,  and  he  be 
stripped  of  his  arms,  whenever  and  wherever  a  pro¬ 
vost  marshal  dare  attempt  it. 

X. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration  that 
the  accused  shall  be  informed  of  the  nature  and  cause 
of  the  accusation,”  against  him  ? 

That  he  shall  not  be  informed  of  the  nature  of  hi# 
offence. 


CATECHISM. 


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XL 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  promise  that  an. 
accused  man  may  “  be  confronted  with  the  witnesses 
against  him  ?” 

That  he  shall  not  be  allowed  to  confront  them. 

XII. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration  that  the 
accused  “  shall  have  compulsory  process  for  obtain* 
ing  witnesses  in  his  favor  ?” 

That  he  shall  not  be  allowed  any  witnesses. 

XIII. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration  that .  “  the 
judicial  Power  of  the  United  States  shall  be  vested 
in  the  Supreme  Court,”  etc.  ? 

That  it  shall  be  vested  in  the  President  and  his 
provost  marshals. 

XIY. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration  that  “  No 
bill  of  Attainder,  or  ex  post  facto  law  shall  be 
passed  ?” 

That  such  a  law  may  be  passed  whenever  Congress 
pleases. 

XY. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  President’s  oatli 
that  he,  “  will  to  the  best  of  his  ability,  Preserve,  pro¬ 
tect  and  defend  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States  ?” 

That  he  will  do  all  in  his  power  to  subvert  and  de¬ 
stroy  it. 


THE  LINCOLN 


XVI. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  that  part  of  his  oath 
in  which  he  swears  to  “  take  care  that  the  laws  be 
faithfully  executed  ”  ? 

That  he  will  appoint  provost  marshals  to  override 
ind  disobey  the  laws. 

XVII. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration  that 
“The  United  States  shall  guarantee  to  every  state  a 
Republican  form  of  government  ?” 

That  Congress  shall  assist  the  President  in  destroy¬ 
ing  the  Republican  form  of  government  in  the  States, 
and  substituting  a  military  government  whenever  he 
pleases — witness  Missouri,  Kentucky,  Maryland,  and 
Delaware. 

XVIII. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration  that  “  No 
attainder  of  Treason  shall  work  corruption  of  blood, 
or  forfeiture,  except  during  the  life  of  the  person 
attainted  ? 

That  a  person  accused  of  Treason  may  have  his 
property  confiscated  not  only  during  his  life,  but  for 
all  time,  so  that  his  children  and  heirs  shall  be  pun¬ 
ished  for  the  crimes  alleged  against  him. 

XIX. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration,  that 
“  No  person  shall  be  convicted  of  treason  unless 
on  the  testimony  of  two  witnesses  to  some  overt  act, 
or  on  confession  in  open  court? 

That  a  man  may  be  convicted  of  treason  without 
any  witness,  and  without  judge  or  jury,  and  without 
having  committed  any  overt  act. 


CATECHISM. 


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XX. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  declaration  that 
“  No  money  shall  be  drawn  from  the  Treasury  but  in 
consequence  of  appropriations  made  by  law  ?” 

_  4  • 

That  the  President  may  draw  money  from  the 
Treasury  whenever  he  pleases,  for  such  things  as 
sending  missionaries  and  teachers  to  teach  contra¬ 
bands  to  read  and  write,  or  to  build  sheds  and  houses 
for  stolen  or  run-away  negroes. 


XXI. 


What  is'  the  meaning  of  the  government  ? 
The  Presmlent. 1 

XXII. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  an  oath  ? 

To  swoar  not  to  do  the  thing  you  promise. 


What  is  truth  ? 

Am 


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LESSON  THE  THIRD. 

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r  ...  U , .  •  .  ,  *  . 

I. 

_  •  _ 

Do  loyal  leaguers  believe  in  the  Ten  Command¬ 
ments  ? 

<  •  ; 

They  do. 

II. 

What  are  the  Ten  Commandments  ? 

Thou  shalt  have  no  other  God  but  the  negro. 

Thou  shalt  make  an  image  of  a  negro,  and  place  it 
on  the  Capitol  as  the  type  of  the  new  American  man. 

Thou  shalt  swear  that  the  negro  shall  be  the  equal 
of  the  white  man. 

Thou  shalt  fight  thy  battles  on  the  Sabbath  day, 
and  thy  generals,  and  thy  captains,  and  thy  privates* 
and  thy  servants,  shall  do  all  manner  of  murders,  and 
thefts  as  on  the  other  six  days. 

Thou  shalt  not  honor  nor  obey  thy  father  nor  thy 
mother  if  they  are  Copperheads ;  but  thou  shalt  serve, 
honor  and  obey  Abraham  Lincoln. 

Thou  shalt  commit  murder — of  slaveholders. 

Thou  mayest  commit  adultery — with  the  contra¬ 
bands. 

Thou  shalt  steal — everything  that  belongeth  to  a 
slaveholder. 

Thou  shalt  bear  false  witness — against  all  slave¬ 
holders. 

Thou  shalt  covet  the  slave-holder’s  man-servant  and 
his  maid-servant,  and  shalt  steal  his  ox  and  his  ass, 
and  everything  that  belongeth  to  him. 

For  on  these  commandments  hang  all  the  law  and 
the  honor  of  loyal  leaguers. 


CATECHISM. 


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in. 

•  .  l/i  l  J . .  /  1  w  *  «'  - 

Do  loyal  leaguers  believe  the  teachings  of  the 
gospel  ? 

They  do. 

IV. 

What  does  the  gospel  teach  ? 

That  we  shall  hate  those  who  believe  not  with  ns, 
and  persecute  those  who  never  wronged  us. 

v. 

What  else  does  the  gospel  teach  ? 

That  we  shall  resist  evil,  and  that  we  shall  over¬ 
come  evil  with  evil. 

VI. 

What  does  the  gospel  say  of  peace-makers? 

,  That  they  shall  be  accursed. 

VII. 

Whose  children  are  the  peace-makers  ? 

The  children  of  the  devil. 

yin. 

Do  Loyal  Leagues  believe  in  the  Sermon  on  the 
Mount? 

They  do. 

TV 

lAi 

Kepeat  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount. 

Blessed  are  the  proud  and  the  contractors,  for 
theirs  is  the  kingdom  of  greenbacks. 

Blessed  are  they  that  do  not  mourn  for  them  that 
are  murdered  in  the  abolition  war,  for  they  shall  be 
comforted  with  office. 

Blessed  are  the  haughty,  for  they  shall  inherit  shin- 
plasters. 


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u}> 

Blessed  are  they  that  do  hunger  and  thirst  after  the 
blood  of  slaveholders,  for  they  shall  be  filled. 

Blessed  are  the  unmerciful,  for  they  shall  obtain 
command.  -  - 

Blessed  are  the  vile  in  heart,  for  they  shall  be  ap¬ 
pointed  judges. 

Whosoever  does  not  smite  thee  on  one  cheek,  smite 
him  on  both.  ;  : 

And  if  he  turn  away  from  thee,  turn  and  hit  him 
again. 

If  thou  findest  a  chance  to  steal  a  slaveholder’s 
coat,  steal  his  cloak  also; 

Give  to  a  negro  that  asketh  not,  but  from  the  poor 
white  man  turn  thou  away. 

Be  ye  therefore  unkind,  spiteful,  and  reveiigeful, 
even  as  your  father  the  devil  is  the  same. 

Take  heed  that  ye  give  alms  in  public  to  the  ne¬ 
groes,  otherwise  ye  have  no  reward  of  your  father 
Abraham,  who  is  in  Washington. 

Therefore  when  thou  givest  thine  alms  to  a  negro,  - 
do  thou  sound  a  trumpet  before  thee,  as  the  ministers ' 
and  hypocrites  do  in  the  churches  and  in  the  streets, 
that-they  may  have  glory  of  the  contrabands. 

And  when  thou  doest  alms  let  each  hand  know f 
what  the  other  hand  doeth. 

That  thine  alms  may  not  be  secret ;  and  thy  father 
the  devil,  who  established  the  leagues,  shall  reward 
thee  openly. 

And  when  thou  prayest,  go  to  the  Academy  of 
Music,  or  to  Cooper’s  Institute,  that  thou  mayest  be 
seen  of  men,  after  the  manner  of  Cora  Hatch  and 
Henry  Ward  Beecher. 

Do  not  forgive  men  their  trespasses,  for  if  you  do 
God  will  not  forgive  your  trespasses. 


CATECHISM. 


H6 

Moreover,  when  you  pretend  to  fast,  fast  not  at  all, 
but  eat  turkies,  ducks,  and  especially  roosters,  that  ye 
may  crow  over  the  Copperheads,  and  stuff  yourselves 
with  whatsoever  a  shinplaster  buyeth. 

,  Lay  up  for  yourselves  treasures  in  greenbacks  and 
five-twenties,  and  whatever  else  ye  may  steal  from  the 
Custom  House  and  the  Treasury. 

Every  man  can  serve  two  masters,  the  devil  and  the 
Abolitionists. 

Take  no  thought  to  get  raiment  by  honest  toil,  but 
go  down  South  and  steal  it.  Consider  the  vultures 
and  the  hawks,  how  they  toil  not  neither  do  they  sow, 
and  yet  no  creature  was  ever  stuffed  out  with  so  much 
fatness,  except  a  contraband  that  feedeth  at  the  pub¬ 
lic  crib. 

Judge  another  without  judge  or  jury,  but  destroy 
the  laws,  so  that  your  own  measure  shall  not  be 
measured  unto  you  again. 

If  thou  hast  a  beam  in  thine  own  eye,  shut  thine 
eye  so  that  it  cannot  be.seen,  and  go  to  picking  out  the 
mote  that  is  in  the  Copperhead’s  eye. 

If  a  poor  white  man  ask  bread,  give  him  a  stone,  if 
he  ask  a  fish,  give  him  an  alligator. 

Therefore,  whatsoever  ye  would  that  the  slave¬ 
holder  should  not  do  unto  you,  do  it  even  unto  him  : 
for  this  is  the  law  of  the  loyal  leagues. 

X. 

Have  the  loyal  leagues  a  prayer  ? 

They  have. 

XI. 

Repeat  it. 

Father  Abram,  who  art  in  Washington,  of  glorious 


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memory — since  the  date  of  thy  proclamation  to  free 
negroes. 

Thy  kingdom  come,  and  overthrow  the  republic  ; 
thy  will  be  done,  and  the  laws  perish. 

Give  us  this  day  our  daily  supply  of  greenbacks. 

Forgive  us  our  plunders,  but  destroy  the  Copper¬ 
heads. 

Lead  us  into  fat  pastures ;  but  deliver  us  from  the 
eye  of  detectives ;  and  make  us  the  equal  of  the 
negro  ;  for  such  shall  be  our  kingdom,  and  the  glory 
of  thy  administration. 


CATECHISM. 


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LESSON  THE  FOURTH. 

L 

What  is  the  motto  of  loyal  leagues  ? 

“  Liberty  to  the  slave,  or  death  to  the  Union.” 

n. 

Does  this  place  the  negro  above  the  Union  ? 

It  does. 

m. 

What  do  loyal  leagues  call  the  masses  of  the  peo¬ 
ple? 

"  A  herd  of  cattle  ” — vide  Secretary  Stanton. 

TV. 

How  many  of  this  “Herd  of  cattle”  have  the 
abolitionists  caused  to  be  maimed  or  slain  in  this 
war? 

One  million. 

V. 

How  many  widows  have  they  made  ? 

Five  hundred  thousand. 

C 

YI. 

How  many  orphans  ?  * 

Ten  hundred  thousand. 

VII. 

"What  will  Lincoln’s  administration  cost  the 
country  ? 

Four  thousand  millions  of  dollars. 


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<  * 

VIII. 

What  is  the  annual  interest  on  this  debt  ? 

Two  hundred  and  eighty  millions  of  dollars. 

IX. 

How  much  will  this  interest  amount  to  in  ten 

* 

years  ? 

Two  thousand  and  eight  hundred  millions  of  dol¬ 
lars. 

X. 

How  much  will  that  be  in  twenty  years? 

Five  thousand  and  six  hundred  millions  of  dollars. 

XI. 

Would  the  entire  surplus  export  production  of 
the  North  pay  the  interest  on  its  debt  ? 

It  would  not. 

XII. 

How  will  this  affect  the  people  ? 

It  will  humble  their  pride,  and  make  them  feel  that 
they  have  a  government. 

,  XIII. 

V 

What  effect  will  this  debt  have  on  the  farmer? 

It  will  mortgage  his  farm  to  the  Government  for 
nearly  the  amount  of  the  interest  on  its  cash  value. 


What  effect  will  it  have  on  the  workingman  ? 

It  will  mortgage  his  muscle  and  the  sweat  of  his 
brow  to  the  Government  as  long  as  he  lives. 


CATECHISM. 


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XV. 

Is  there  any  way  for  the  people  to  get  rid  of  this 
debt  ? 

None  whatever,  but  by  repudiation. 

XVI. 

In  case  of  repudiation,  will  “  five  twenties  ”  go 
with  the  rest  ? 

Yes — all  government  paper  will  sink  together. 

XVII. 

How  do  the  Republicans  propose  to  prevent  repu¬ 
diation  9 

•  *■  * 

By  a  standing  army  of  negroes ,  to  force  the  people 
to  pay  at  the  point  of  the  bayonet. 


XVIII. 

Who  must  pay  the  expense  of  the  standing  army  ? 

The  people  ;  which  will  add  three  hundred  millions 
annually  to  their  debt. 

XIX. 

What  will  be  the  great  advantage  of  this  debt  ? 

It  will  enslave  the  people,  and  bring  them  into  the 
same  wholesome  subjection  that  they  are  in  the  Old 
World. 

XX. 

Is  there  any  other  benefit  ? 

Yes — It  will  enable  the  children  of  the  rich  to  live, 
without  industry,  upon  the  earnings  of  the  poor  from 
generation  to  generation. 


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XXL 

Should  Mr,  Lincoln  be  re-elected,  what  debt  will 
lie  leave  upon  the  country  at  the  end  of  his  second 
term  ? 

Eight  billions,  or  eight  thousand  millions  of  dollars  ! 

XII. 

* 

"What  will  be  the  interest  annually  on  this  debt  ? 

Five  hundred  and  sixty  millions  of  dollars. 

XIII.  * 

What  will  be  the  annual  expense  for  interest,  and 
the  standing  army  ? 

Eight  hundred  and  sixty  millions  of  dollars ! 

XI Y. 

Will  it  be  possible  for  the  people  to  stand  such 
a  pressure  of  taxes  ? 

They  will  have  to  stand  it,  or  stand  the  prick  of  the 
bayonet. 

XY. 

Suppose  the  people  should  take  it  into  their 
heads  to  abandon  their  property  ana  quit  the  country  ? 

They  will  not  be  allowed — but  will  be  compelled  to 
remain  and  work  for  the  support  of  the  Government. 

XYI. 

Will  this  be  just  ? 

-  Yes — “  the  government  must  be  supported/'  — 


CATECHISM; 


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LESSON  THE  FIFTH. 

I. 

What  was  Abraham  Lincoln  by  trade  ? 

A  rail-  splitter. 

H 

What  is  he  now  ? 

.  Union-splitter. 

III. 

Who  is  Sumner  ? 

A  free  American  of  African  descent,  who  would 
swear  to  support  the  Constitution  “  only  as  he  under¬ 
stood  it.” 

IV. 

Who  is  Phillips  ? 

One  of  the  founders  of  the  Republican  party  who 
“  labored  nineteen  years  to  take  fifteen  states  out  of 
the  Union.” 

V. 

Who  is  Garrison  ? 

'A  friend  of  the  President,  who  went  to  hell,  and 
found  the  original  copy  of"  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States  there. 

VI. 

Who  is  Seward  ? 

A  Prophet  in  the  Temple  of  black  dragons,  and  a 
taster  in  the  government  whiskey  distillery. 

VII. 

Who  is  Chase  ? 

The  foreman  of  a  green  paper  printing  office. 


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yin. 

Who  is  Banks  ? 

A  dancing  master,  who  wanted  to  slide  down  hill 
with  the  Union. 


IX. 

Who  is  Wade  ? 

An  amiable  Christian  gentlemen  who  wanted  to 
“  wade  up  to  his  knees  in  the  blood  of  slaveholders.” 


X. 

Who  is  Francis  S.  Spinner  ? 

A  spinner  of  black  yarn,  who  swore  he  would  “  abol¬ 
ish  slavery,  dissolve  the  Union,  or  have  civil  war,” 
now  Register  of  the  Treasury. 

XI. 

Who  is  James  S.  Pike  ? 

A  stale  fish  which  Mr.  Lincoln  presented  as  a  Min¬ 
ister  to  the  Netherlands,  because,  he  said,  “  The 
Union  is  not  worth  supporting  in  connection  with  the 
South.” 

xn. 

* 

Who  is  Judge  Spaulding  ? 

A  bad  pot  of  glue}  which  would  not  hold  the  Union 
together,  but  declared  in  the  Fremont  Convention. 
“I  am  for  dissolution,  and  I  care  not  how  soon  it 
comes.” 

XIII. 

Who  is  Jack  Hale? 

A  hail  fellow-well-met  with  the  negroes,  who  in¬ 
troduced  a  petition  to  dissolve  the  Union  in  1850. 


CATECHISM. 


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xm 

Who  is  Thomas  F.  Meagher  ? 

An  absconding*:  prisoner  from  Botany  Bay,  who 
came  to  New  York •  to  “  squelch  the  Copperheads.” 

XV. 

Who  is  Simeon  Draper  ? 

A  .  political  draper  by  trade,  who  tried  to  dress  out  - 
poor  Barney  of  the  Custom  House,  that  he  might 
make  a  nice  suit  for  himself. 

XVL 

Who  is  Horace  Greeley  ?. 

A  celebrated  poet,  who  wrote  a  poem  on  the  Ameri¬ 
can  Flag,  beginning  thus : 

“  Tear  down  the  flaunting  lioi 
Half-mast  the  starry  flag ! 

Insult  no  sunny  sky, 

With  hate’s  polluted  rag.* 

XVII. 

Who  is  Owen  Lovejoy  ? 

A  fat  and  spongy  Albino  from  Illinois.  When  it 
was  supposed  that  his  soul  had  floated  off  to  Tartarus 
on  the  waves  of  his  own  fat ;  a  brother  member  of 

Congress  kindly  wrote  his  epitaph  : 

Beneath  this  stone  good  Owen  Lovejoy  lies, 

Little  in  everything  except  in  size  ; 

What  though  his  burly  body  fills  this  hole. 

Still  through  hell’s  key-hole  crept  his  little  soul. 

And  when  good  Owen  returned  to  this'  mundane 
sphere,  his  arrival  was  celebrated  by  the?  following 
complimentary  additional  verse ; 

The  Devil  finding  Owen  there, 

Began  to  flout  and  rave — and  sware 
That  hell  should  ne’er  endure  the  stain, 

And  kicked  him  back  to  earth  again. 


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XVIII. 

Who  is  Andrew  Curtin? 

A  highly  colored  screen,  to  cover  the  whiskey  in  the 
Executive  Chamber  of  Pennsylvania, 

-  XIX. 

Who  is  John  A.  Dix  ? 

A  brave  and  invincible  General,  who  never  having 
had  a  chance  to  show  his  prowess  in  battle,' seized  the 
Park  Barracks,  containing  seventy-five  sick  and 
wronged  soldiers,  and  twenty-seven  bushels  of  vermin. 

XX. 

Who  its  Park  Godwin  ? 

A  celebrated  Lexicographer,  in  the  pay  of  Mr.  Lin. 
eoln,  who  defines  theft — “  annoyance  ”  and  "  bother¬ 
ation.” 

XXI. 

Who  is  Henry  J.  Raymond  ? 

A  giant  from. the  blood-stained  plains  of  Solferino* 
enjoying  a  pension  as  Liar  Extraordinary  to  the  Ad 
ministration. 

XXII. 

*  Who  is  the  Rev.  Henry  Bellows  ? 

A  zoiniy  instrument  of  the  abolitionists,  who  is  try¬ 
ing  very  hard  to  make  himself  the  equal  of  a  negro- 

XXIII. 

Who  is  General  Schenck  ?  *  * 

A  creature  of  very  mixed  black  and  white  principles* 
which  made  an  awful  stink  in  Maryland. 

XXIV. 

Who  is  Thad  Stephens  ? 

An  amalgamationist  from  Pennsylvania,  who  ilOIL* 
estly  practices  wha  the  preaches. 


CATECHISM. 


XXY. 

"Who  is  General  Burnside  ? 

A  fiery  commander  who  has  had  wonderful  success 
in  seizing  peaceable  and  unarmed  civilians,  when  they- 
were  asleep  in  their  own  beds  at  midnight ;  and  who 
was  once  caught  in  a  trap  by  a  famous  old  trapper 
the  name  of  Lee. 

XXYI. 

Who  is  James  T.  Brady  ? 

A  gentleman  of  great  political  versatility,  now 
affiliated  with  the  amalgamationists,  who  believes  that 
"  A  rose  by  any  other  name  would  smell  as  sweet.” 


XXYII. 

Who  is  Anna  Dickinson  ? 

Ask  Ben.  Butler  and  William  D.  Kelly. 


XXYIH. 

Who  is  Ben.  Butler  ? 


A  Satyr,  who  has  the  face  of  a  devil  and  the  hearts 
of  a  beast,  who  laughed  when  Banks  supplanted  hiro. 

in  New  Orleans,  saying,  “he  will  find  it  a  squeezed!, 
lemon.” 


XXIX. 


•  Who  is  William  D.  Kelly  ? 

A  member  of  Congress,  and  a  wagon  contractor, 
who  plays  a  bass  viol  in  the  orchestra  of  the  females 
loyal  leagues. 

XXX. 

I  I  »<  *  .  ^ 

Who  is  Henry  P.  Stanton  ? 

A  white  man,  whose  negro  principles,  are  under— 
going  -  a  bleaching  process,  in  consequence  of:  his; 
having  been  made  a  scape-goat  for  all  of  Chasnis 
forty  thieves  in  the  Custom  House. 


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LESSON  THE  SIXTH. 

|»  f  (k 

I. 

_  I 

What  is  the  chief  end  of  the  loyal  leagues  ? 

The  end  of  the  Union. 

n. 

What  are  States  ? 

Colonies  of  the  Federal  Government, 

« 

in. 

What  is  a  Judge  ? 

A  provost  marshal. 

IV. 

What  is  a  court  of  law  ? 

A  body  of  soldiers,  appointed  by  a  General  to  try 
civilians  without  law. 

V. 

What  is  a  Bastile  ? 

A  Republican  meeting-house,  for  the  involuntary 
^assembling  of  men  who  believe  in  the  Union  as  it 
was,  and  the  Constitution  as  it  is. 

VL 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  word  “  demagogue  ?” 
Ask  those  members  of  Congress,  who  believe  the 
war  is  for  the  negro,  and  for  the  destruction  of  the 

Union,  and  yet  vote  it  supplies  of  men  and  money. 

*  ( 

vn. 

What  is  a  Governor  ? 

A  general  agent  for  the  President. 


CATECH  [SM. 


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VIII 

What  is  a  negro  ? 

A  white  man  ith  a  black  skin. 

% 

IX. 

What  is  a  white  man  ? 

A  negro  with  a  white  skin. 

X. 

What  will  be  the  effect  of  amalgamation? 

It  is  the  doctrine  of  the  Leagues  that  a  superior 
race  will  spring  from  amalgamation. 

XI. 

Is  this  according  to  science  ? 

No, — science  teaches  that  the  progeny  of  amalga¬ 
mation  would  run  out,  and  become  extinct  after  the 
fourth  or  fifth  generation. 

XII. 

Is  science  true  ? 

No — it  must  be  a  lie ;  or  the  Leaguers  are  the 
greatest  fools  or  knaves  that  ever  lived. 

J  h  * 

XIII. 

Is  amalgamation  now  practiced  to  a  greater  extent 
than  formerly  ? 

It  is,  to  a  much  greater  extent. 

XIV. . 

Where  ?  -  . 

Everywhere  where  Leagues  prevail. 


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XYt 

Is  it  prosperous  in  Washington  ? 
jit  is — so  much  so  that  more  than  five  thousand  of 
the  fruits  of  amalgamation  have  been  born  in  that 
cit y  since  the  election  of  Mr.  Lincoln. 

XVI. 

Is  it  spreading  elsewhere  ? 

Yes — wdierever  the  officers  of  our  army  go  in  the 
South,  it  is  doing  well. 


XYII. 

How  is  it  in  New  Orleans  ? 

Well ;  —but  there  are  a  great  many  squint-eyed 
yellow  babies  there,  supposed  to  have  been  occasioned 
Iby  fright  at  the  presence  of  Ben.  Butler. 


XYIII. 


Did  the  same  thing  occur  at  Fortress  Monroe, 
^fter  Ben.  Butler  was  in  command  there  ? 

It  did. 

XIX. 

The  effects  of  fright  are  very  wonderful  in  such 
cases,  are  they  not  ? 

They  are  wonderful  indeed. 


XX. 

Do  such  remarkable  imitations  ever  spring  from 
.any  other  cause  than  fright  ? 

Yes — as  in  cases  where  such  imitations  follow  good 
looking  men,  like  Senators  Wilson  and  Sumner. 


CATECHISM. 


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XXI. 

Is  the  science  of  amalgamation  now  in  its  in- 
fancy  ?  * 

Comparatively — but,  under  the  patronage  of  the 
loyal  leagues,  a  great  number  of  practical  and  experi¬ 
mental  works  will  soon  be  issued . 


XXII. 

Who  are  engaged  on  these  works  ? 

The  learned  abolition  clergy,  Members  of  Congress^ 
and  all  competent  loyal  leaguers. 


XXIII. 


Are  the  loyal  leagues  intended  to  be  “  nurseries. 50 
of  the  new  science  of  amalgamation  ? 

They  are. 

XXIV. 


Is  amalgamation  considered  the  true  doctrine  off 
negro  equality  as  taught  by  Mr,  Lincoln  in  his  de¬ 
bates  with  Mr.  Douglas  ? 

It  is. 

XXY. 


Is  this  what  Anna  Dickinson  really  means  hy 
“  the  lesson  of  the  hour  ?” 

It  is. 

XXYI. 

Is  this  what  the  President  means  by  “Rising;*3 
with  the  occasion  ?” 

It  is. 


THE  LINCOLN 


LESSON  THE  SEVENTH. 

I. 

Were  the  framers  of  the  Constitution  short¬ 
sighted  and  foolisii  men  ? 

Tney  were. 

n. 

Are  their  pernicious  sentiments  condemnatory  of 
our  most  righteous  abolition  war? 

They  are. 

III. 

What  did  Jefferson,  the  father  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence,  teach  ? 

That,  “  the  several  states  which  framed  the  Consti¬ 
tution  have  the  unquestionable  right  to  judge  of  in¬ 
fractions.” 

IV. 

What  did  James  Madison,  the  father  of  the  Con¬ 
stitution,  say  ? 

That,  “  in  case  of  a  deliberate,  palpable  and  dan-, 
gerous  exercise  of  powers  not  granted  in  the  Com¬ 
pact,  the  States  have  a  right  to  interfere,  for  main¬ 
taining  within  their  respective  limits  the  authorities, 
lights  and  liberties  appertaining  to  them.” 

V. 

What  did  J ohn  Quincy  Adams  say  ? 

That,  “  if  the  day  shall  come — may  Heaven  avert 
it ! — when  the  affections  of  the  people  of  these  States 
shall  be  alienated  from  each  other,  when  this  frater¬ 
nal  spirit  shall  give  way  to  cold  indifference,  or  colli- 


.  CATECHISM.  81 

Sions  of  interest  shall  fester  into  hatred— then  the 
bands  of  political  association  will  not  hold  together 
parties  no  longer  attracted  by  the  magnetism  of  con¬ 
ciliated  interests  and  kindly  sympathies,  and  lar  bai¬ 
ter  will  it  be  for  the  people  of  the  disunited  States  to 
part  in  friendship  from  each  other  than  to  be  held 
together  by  restraint.” 

VI. 

Have  still  later  statesmen  and  politicians  been 
affected  with  the  same  damnable  idea  ? 

•  f 

They  have. 

Y3Z 

What  did  Daniel  Webster  say? 

“  A  bargain  broken  on  one  side  is  a  bargain  brokers 
on  all  sides. 5  5 

YIII. 

What  did  Andrew  Jackson  say  in  his  farewell 
address  ?  • 

That,  “  If  such  a  struggle  is  once  begun,  and  the 
citizens  of  one  section  of  the  country  are  arrayed  in 
arms  against  those  of  the  other,  in  doubtful  conflict, 
let  the  battle  result  as  it  may,  there  will  be  an  end  of 
the  Union,  and  with  it  an  end  of  the  hope  of  free¬ 
dom.  The  victory  of  the  injured  would  not  secure 
to  them  the  blessings  of  liberty  ;  it  would  avenge 
their  wrongs,  but  they  would  themselves  share  in  the 
common  ruin.  The  Constitution  cannot  be  main¬ 
tained  nor  the  Union  preserved,  in  opposition  to 
public  feeling,  by  the  mere  exertion  of  the  coercive 
powers  confided  to  the  government.,, 


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What  did  Abraham  Lincoln  say  in  Congress  in 

1848  ? 

That,  “  Any  people  anywhere,  being  inclined,  and 
haying  the  power,  have  the  right  to  rise  up  and  shake 
off  the  existing  government,  and  form  a  new  one  that 
suits  them  better.  This  is  a  most  valuable  a  most 
sacred  right — a  right  which  we  hope  and  believe,  is 
to  liberate  the  world.  Nor  is  the  right  confined  to  the 
cause  in  which  the  whole  people  of  an  existing  gov¬ 
ernment  may  choose  to  exercise  it.  ANY  PORTION 
of  such  people  that  can,  may  revolutionize  and  make 
their  own  of  so  much  of  the  Territory  as  they  in¬ 
habit.  ” 

X. 

What  did  Henry  Clay  say  ? 

That,  “  When  my  State  is  right — when  it  has  cause 
for  resistance — when  tyranny  and  wrong  and  oppres¬ 
sion  insufferable  arise,  I  will  share  her  fortunes.  ’ 9 

0 

XI. 

What  did  U.  S.  Senator  Levi  Woodbury  of  New 
Hampshire  say  ? 

That,  “  If  the  bonds  of  a  common  language,  a 
common  government  and  all  the  common  glories  of 
the  last  century,  cannot  make  us  concilatory  and 
kind — cannot  make  all  sides  forgive  and  forget  some¬ 
thing, — cannot  persuade  to  some  sacrifice  even,  if 
necessary,  to  hold  us  together,  force  is  as  unprofita¬ 
ble  TO  accomplish  it  as  fratricide  is  to  perpetuate 

PEACE  IN  A  COMMON  FAMILY.” 


CATECHISM. 


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XII. 

What  did  Horace  Greeley  say  in  the  Tribune ,  Nov. 
26,  1860  ? 

That,  “  If  the  Cotton  States  unitedly  and  earnestly 
wish  to  withdraw  peacefully  from  the  Union,  we  think 
they  should  be  allowed  to  do  so.  Any  attempt  to 
compel  them  by  force  to  remain,  would  be  contrary 
to  the  principles  enunciated  in  the  immortal  Declara¬ 
tion  of  independence.  ” 

XIII. 

What  did  Mr.  Greeley  say  in  the  Tribune ,  Dec. 
17,  1860  ? 

That,  “  We  have  repeatedly  asked  those  who  dis¬ 
sent  from  our  view  of  this  matter,  to  tell  us  frankly 
whether  they  do  or  do  not  assent  to  Mr.  Jefferson’s 
statement  in  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  thai> 
governments  “  derive  their  just  powers  from  THE  CON-  . 
sent  of  the  governed  ;  and  that,  whenever  any  form 
of  government  becomes  destructive  of  these  ends,  it  i  ^ 
the  right  of  the  people  to  alter  or  abolish  it,  and  to  insti¬ 
tute  a  new  government,  &c.,  &c.  We  do  heartily,  ac¬ 
cept  this  doctrine,  believing  it  intrinsically  sound , 
beneficent,  and  one  that,  universally  accepted,  is  calcu¬ 
lated  to  prevent  the  shedding  of  seas  of  human  blood . 
And,  if  it  justified  the  secession  from  the  British 
Empire  of  three  millions  of  colonists  in  1776,  we 

DO  NOT  SEE  WHY  IT  WOULD  NOT  JUSTIFY  THE  SECESSION 
OF  FIVE  MILLIONS  OF  SOUTHERNERS  FROM  THE  FEDERAL 

Union  in  1861.  If  we  are  mistaken  on  this  point, 
why  does  not  some  one  attempt  to  show  wherein  and 
why?  For  our  own  part,  while  we  deny  the  right  of 
slaveholders  to  hold  slaves  against  the  will  of  the  lat¬ 
ter,  we  cannot  see  how  Twenty  Millions  of  people  can 
rightfully  hold  Ten  or  even  Five  Millions  in  a  detested 
Union  with  them  by  military  force.” 


•  3  i 


THE  LINCOLN 


If  even  “ seven  or  eight  States”  send  agents  to 
"Washington  to  say,  “We  want  to  get  out  of  the 
Union,”  we  shall  feel  constrained  by  our  devotion  to 
Human  Liberty  to  say,  Let  them  go  !  And  we  do  not 
see  how  we  could  take  the  other  side  without  coming- 

in  DIRECT  CONTACT  WITH  THOSE  RIGHTS  OE  MAN  WHICH 
WE  HOLD  PARAMOUNT  TO  ALL  POLITICAL  ARRANGEMENTS, 

however  convenient  and  advantageous.” 

SIY. 

What  did  Chancellor  Walworth  say  March  1st, 
1861? 

That,  “  It  would  be  as  brutal  to  send  men  to  butcher 
their  brothers  of  the  Southern  States,  as  it  would  be 
to  massacre  them  in  the  Northern  States.” 


XY. 

What  did  David  S.  Dickinson  say  in  1860  ? 

That,  “  The  Union  is  not  to  be  maintained  by 
force.” 

XYI. 

What  did  Judge  Amasa  J.  Parker  say? 

That,  “  our  people  shrink  back  aghast  at  the  idea 
of  repeating,  in  this  enlightened  age,  that  first  great 
crime  of  man,  the  staining  of  their  hands  with  a 
brother’s  blood.” 

XYII.  . 

What  did  Senator  Stephen  A.  Douglas  say : 

That,  “  I  dont  understand  how  a  man  can  claim  to 
he  a  friend  the  Union,  and  yet  be  in  favor  of  war 
upon  ten  o.vi  In jns  of  people  in  the  Union.  You  can¬ 
not  cover  it  up  much  longer  under  the  pretext  of  love 
for  the  Union.” 


CATECHISM. 


35 


xvm. 

What  did  the  address  of  the  Democratic  State 
Convention  of  New  York  say  in  1861  ? 

That  “  the  worst  and  most  ineffective  argument 
that  can  be  addressed  by  the  Federal  Government,  or 
its  adhering  members,  to  the  seceding  States,  is  civil 
war.  Civil  war  will  not  restore  the  Union,  but  will 
defeat  forever  its  reconstruction.” 

XIX. 

What  did  the  Tammany  Hall  resolutions  of  March. 
1st,  1861,  say  ? 

That,  “No  State  shall  be  coerced  into  remaining 
in  this  Union,  when,  in  the  judgment  of  her  people, 
her  safety  requires  that  she  should  secede  in  order  to 
protect  the  lives  and  property  of  her  citizens. 

“  We  will  oppose  any  attempt  on  the  part  of  the 
Republicans  in  power  to  make  any  armed  aggression 
under  the  plea  of  ‘  enforcing  the  laws/  or  ‘  preserving 
the  Union/  upon  the  Southern  States/5 

XX. 

Are  not  the  sentiments  expressed  by  all  the 
above  named  statesmen  and  politicians,  the  same  as 
now  held  by  such  infamous  traitors  as  Clement  Val- 
landigham  and  C.  Chauncey  Burv  ? 

They  are. 

i  XXI. 

What  ought  to  be  done  with  such  men  as  Val- 
landigham  and  Burr,  who  “  cling  to  these  dogmas 
of  the  dead  past  ?” 

They  ought  to  be  hanged. 


THE  LINCOLN 


XXII. 

Were  Gen.  Jackson  and  John  Quincy  Adams  to 
come  on  earth  again  and  teach  the  same  as  they 
once  did,  would  they  deserve  to  be  hanged  ? 

They  would. 

XXIII. 

What  should  be  done  to  Tammany  Hall  if  it  held 
the  same  doctrine  now  that  it  did  three  years  ago? 

It  should  be  hanged,  individually  and  collectively. 

XXIV. 

What  should  be  done  to  Abraham  Lincoln  if  ho 
believed  now  as  he  did  in  1848  ? 

The  king  can  do  no  wrong. 

XXY. 

Are  all  who  believe  as  our  fathers  taught,  “traitors’ 
and  “  sympathizers  ?’ 

They  are. 

XXVI. 

What  will  become  of  all  who  believe  in  the  Union 
as  it  was,  and  the  Constitution  as  it  is  ? 

They  shall  be  damned. 

XXVII. 

*  0 

What  shall  be  the  reward  of  all  such  as  believe 
the  Union  was  a  covenant  with  death,  and  the  Consti¬ 
tution  a  compact  with  hell  ? 

They  shall  be  received  into  a  negro  Paradise. 


CATECHISM. 


37 


LESSON  THE  NINTH. 

l. 

Is  the  United  States  a  consolidated  government  ? 

It  is. 

H. 

Who  consolidated  it  ? 

Abraham  Lincoln. 

m. 

Does  consolidation  mean  to  annihilate  the  States  ? 
Yes — to  a  great  extent. 

IV. 

Had  lie  a  right  to  do  this  ? 

Yes — under  the  way  power. 

Y. 

Who  invented  the  war  power  ? 

Abraham  Lincoln. 

VI. 

lor  what  purpose  did  he  invent  the  war  power? 
That  he  might  not  have  to  return  to  the  business 
of  splitting  rails. 

vn. 

Was  Mr.  Lincoln  ever  distinguished  as  a  military 
officer  ? 

He  was — In  the  Black  Hawk  war. 

VIII. 

What  high  military  position  did  he  hold  in  that 
war  ? 

He  was  a  cook. 


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,IX. 

Was  he  distinguished  for  anything  except  for  his 
genius  as  a  cook  ? 

Yes— he  often  pretended  to  see  Indians  in  the 
woods,  where  it  was  afterwards  proved  that  none  ex¬ 
isted. 

X. 

Was  he  ever  in  any  battle  ? 

No— he  prudently  skedaddled,  and  went  home  at 
the  approach  of  the  first  engagement. . 

>  .  .v  .  "  *  *  *  '  t  *  j  *  j.  iM.  '  * 

XI. 

Is  there  proof  of  this  ? 

Yes — there  are  several  men  still  living  in  Sangamon 
County,  Illinois,  who  ;were  present  in  the  brigade  at 

the  time. 

% 

XII. 

Does  the  Republican  party  intend  to  change  the 
name  of  the  United  States? 

It  does. 

XIII. 

What  do  they  intend  to  call  it  ? 

New  Africa. 

XIY. 

How  will  New  Africa  be  bordered  ? 

.  On  the  North  by  the  North  Star,  on  the  East  by 
Boston,  on  the  West  by  Sunset,  and  on  the  South  by 
Salt-river. 

XY. 

Are  the  people  of  the  United  States  happy  ? 

They  are,  very. 


CATECHISM. 


39 


XVL 

What  do  they  live  upon  ? 

Chiefly  on  blood. 

xvn. 

What  do  the  Bepublicans  understand  by  the  word 
people  ? 

Abolitionists,  mesmerisers,  spiritual  mediums,  free- 
lovers  and  negroes. 

xyin. 

What  is  to  be  the  established  religion  of  New 
Africa  ? 

Infidelity. 

XIX. 

How  are  the  people  to  be  divided? 

Into  the  rich,  the  poor,  the  wise  and  the  foolish. 


Who  are  the  rich  ? 

The  Generals,  the  office-holders,  and  the  thieves. 

XXI. 

Who  are  the  poor  ? 

The  soldiers,  and  all  the  people  who  are  neither 
office-holders  or  thieves. 

xxn. 

Who  are  the  wise  ? 

The  Copperheads,  because  they  are  'serpents.* 

.  XXHI. 

Who  are  the  foolish  ? 

The  black-snakes,  because  they  are  fast  wriggling 
into  a  spot  where  they  will  run  against  the  fangs  of 
the  Copperheads. 


THE  LINCOLN 


40 


XXIY. 

Is  the  black-snake  afraid  of  the  Copperheads  ? 

Tes — as  he  is  of  the  devil. 

XXY. 

What  is  the  uniform  of  a  chaplain  of  the  leagues  ? 

A  shirt,  a  revolver,  and  a  dirk. 

XXYI. 

How  was  this  found  out  ? 

By  the  discovery  of  a  Eeverend  loyal  leaguer  in 
fall  uniform  in  a  lady’s  chamber,  in  Massachusetts. 

XXYII. 

When  caught  did  he  confess  that  every  loyal 
leaguer  is  pledged  to  be  always  armed  with  these  im¬ 
plements  ? 

He  did. 

XXYIII. 

Did  he  make  a  clean  breast  of  the  secrets  of  the 
order  ? 

Yes,  he  made  a  good  deal  cleaner  breast  than  shirt. 

XXIX. 

What  did  the  lady  leaguer  say  when  this  loyal 
chaplain  was  found  in  her  room  ? 

She  said  her  husband  was  a  brute  to  come  home 
when  he  was  n’t  wanted. 

XXX. 

• 

Are  all  husbands  brutes  who  go  home  when  the 
loyal  league  brethren  are  visiting  their  wives  ? 

They  are,  great  brutes. 


CATECHISM. 


41 


LESSON  THE  TENTH. 

L 

-9 

Are  the  loyal  leaguers  taught  to  hate  any  man  ? 

They  are. 

H. 

Who  is  he  ? 

George  B.  McClellan. 

m. 

Why  are  they  taught  to  hate  McClellan  ? 

Because  he  wished  to  restore  the  Union  as  it  was, 
and  preserve  the  Constitution  as  our  fathers  made  it 

IV. 

Why  do  the  loyal  leagues  wish  the  Union  as  it  was, 
and  the  Constitution  as  it  is,  destroyed  ? 

Because  in  no  other  way  can  they  destroy  the 
property  of  the  South,  and  make  the  negro  the  equal 
of  the  white  man. 

V. 

Is  this  the  object  of  the  war  ? 

It  is. 

VI. 

For  what  other  reason  are  the  leagues  taught  to 
hate  McClellan  ? 

Because  he  refused  to  let  the  army  under  his  com¬ 
mand  steal  or  destroy  the  private  property  of  the 
Southern  people. 


42 


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TO 

Are  these  the  reasons  why  he  was  removed  from 

command? 

They  are — because  his  great  popularity  -with  the 
soldiers  might  render  him  a  stumbling-block  in  the 
Presidential  campaign  for  1864. 

VIII. 

Has  Mr.  Lincoln  any  other  stumbling-blocks? 

He  has. 

IX. 

Can  you  name  them  ? 

General  Fremont  is  one,  and  Lincoln  fears,  a  very 
dangerous  one.  • 

X. 

Is  this  the  reason  Mr.  Lincoln  has  not  given  him  a 
command  ? 

It  is 

XI. 

Did  Mr.  Lincoln  approve  of  the  principles  of  Fre¬ 
mont  ’s  campaign  in  the  West  ? 

He  did,  approve  of  every  thing  except  his  aspira¬ 
tions  for  the  presidency,  and  his  popularity  anong  the 
Germans. 

XII. 

What  other  stumbling-block  has  Mr.  Lincoln  ? 

Chase,  who  is  trying  to  buy  his  own  nomination, 
by  putting  extra  steam  on  his  high-pressure  green¬ 
back  printing  machines. 

/ 

XIII. 

What  is  Mr.  Seward  in  this  contest  ? 

A  broken  bubble. 


CATECHISM. 


43 


YIY. 

"When  does  Seward  think  the  war  will  end  ? 

In  sixty  days. 

XY. 

When  does  Lincoln  expect  it  will  end  ? 

When  Afric’s  woods  are  moved  to  Washington. 

XVI. 

Who  is  Mrs.  Lincoln  ? 

The  wife  of  the  government. 

XYLL 

"Who  is  Mr.  Lincoln  ?  % 

A  successful  contractor  to  supply  the  government 
with  mules. 

xvni. 

Who  is  Master  Bob  Lincoln  ? 

A  lucky  boy,  yet  in  his  teens,  who  has  been  s"o 
happy  as  to  obtain  shares  in  Government  Contracts 
by  which  he  has  realized  $300,000. 


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THE  LINCOLN 


LESSON  THE  ELEVENTH. 

I. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  word  swamp  V 

It  is  a  place  in  Florida  where  Mr.  Lincoln  proposes 
to  hide  a  small  number  of  Yankees,  to  act  as  presi¬ 
dential  electors  for  him  next  fall. 

IL 

What  is  a  lagoon  ? 

A  place  in  Louisiana  to  be  used  for  the  same  pur¬ 
pose. 

HI. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  phrase  to  count  chick¬ 
ens  before  they  are  hatched  ? 

Mr.  Lincoln’s  reckoning  upon  the  quiet  submission 
of  all  the  states  to  his  scheme  of  electoral  frauds. 

rv. 

What  does  he  fear  ? 

That,  when  the  pinch  comes  at  last,  the  people  will 
fly  to  arms  and  maka  an  end  of  his  rotten  borough 
system  and  of  himself  together. 

V. 

What  is  a  bank-director  ? 

A  silly  coon,  caught  in  one  of  Chase’s  traps. 

VI. 

What  is  a  government  bank? 

A  new  engine  turned  loose  on  the  track  to  run  over 
all  the  State  banks. 


CATECHISM. 


45 


YII. 

What  will  be  the  result  ? 

That  all  banks,  State  and  National,  will  be  smashed 
up  together. 

vm. 

What  are  Five-Twenties  ? 

Lincoln  I.  0.  U's. — made  redeemable  in  govern¬ 
ment  slips  of  paper,  in  five  or  twenty  years. 

IS. 

What  else  are  they  ? 

Baits  to  catch  flat  fish. 

m 

X. 

.  Are  loyal  leaguers  allowed  to  refer  to  the  Constitu¬ 
tion  ? 

Only  in  terms  of  reproach. 

XI. 

Is  it  a  disloyal  practice  to  refer  to  the  exploded 
right  of  trial  by  jury  ? 

It  is  very  disloyal. 

XII. 

Is  it  disloyal  to  refer  to  the  size  of  Old  Abe’s  feet  ? 
It  is. 

XIII. 

Is  it  disloyal  to  speak  of  white  men  as  a  superior 
race  ? 

It  is,  very. 

XIY. 

Is  it  disloyal  for  a  husband  to  object  to  his  house 
being  visited  by  strange  men  whose  acquaintance  his 
wife  forms  at  the  meetings  of  the  loyal  leagues  ? 

It  is,  shockingly  disloyal.  ,  - 


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THE  LINCOLN 


SY. 


Is  it  disloyal  to  believe  in  the  Union  as  it  was  ? 
It  is. 


XVI. 


Is  it  a  disloyal  practice  to  say  that  the  abolitionists 
ought  to  do  the  fighting  in  their  war  for  the  negroes  ? 
It  is,  dangerously  disloyal. 


XVII.  - 


Is  it  disloyal  to  allude  to  the  rate  at  which  the  Be- 
publicans  are  plundering  the  Treasury  and  the  peo¬ 
ple  ? 

It  is. 

XVIII. 

• 

Is  it  disloyal  to  allude  to  the  difference  between  an 
old  fashioned  Democratic  gold  dollar  and  the  Bepubli- 
can  green  paper  dollars  ? 

It  is. 

XIX. 


Is  it  disloyal  to  allude  to  the  opinions  and  practices 
of  our  fathers  on  civil  liberty  or  the  rights  of  the 
States? 

It  is. 


XX. 


Is  it  disloyal  for  a  man  to  sympathze  with  the  fam 
ily  of  a  murdered  friend  or  relative  in  the  South  ? 

It  is,  wickedly  disloyal. 


XXI. 

Is  it  disloyal  to  honestly  believe  in  one’s  heart  that 
if  Lincoln  is  not  a  fool  he  is  a  knave,  and  that  if  he 
is  not  a  knave  he  is  a  fool  ? 

It  is,  horribly  disloyal. 


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